Romeo and Juliet 1968

Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, who starred in 1968's Romeo and Juliet, are suing Paramount Pictures for a sex scene they filmed as minors.

Hussey and Whiting's manager has commended them for filing the suit, saying that it was very courageous of the now 71- and 72-year-old actors to In 2018, Hussey actually defended the scene in an interview, stating that it was "needed for the film" and "wasn't that big of a deal." Hussey also says that while the nude scene was shocking in America in 1968, it was much more common in European films, and that "in the middle of shooting, [she] just completely forgot [she] didn’t have clothes on." However, on the day the sex scene was set to be shot, Zeffirelli told Hussey and Whiting that the film would "fail" if they did not act in the nude, while still assuring them they would be obscured by the positioning of the camera. The lawsuit was filed on December 30, 2022 and concerns a sex scene in the film which showed Hussey's breasts and Whiting's buttocks, despite reassurances supplied to the actors that there would be no nudity in the film. Zeffirelli that there would be no nudity filmed or exhibited and that Plaintiffs would be wearing flesh colored undergarments during the bedroom/love scene.

Romeo and Juliet” stars Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, accusing Paramount of sexually exploiting ...

“It was needed for the film.” The courts saw an influx of complaints against the Boy Scouts of America and the Catholic church, among other organizations, in the days leading up to the Dec. “Nude images of minors are unlawful and shouldn’t be exhibited,” said the actors’ attorney, Solomon Gresen, in an interview. “These were very young naive children in the ’60s who had no understanding of what was about to hit them. But in the final days of filming, the director allegedly implored them to perform in the nude with body makeup, “or the Picture would fail.” Hussey was 15 at the time and Whiting was 16.

Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting assert in a lawsuit that Paramount Pictures should have known nude images of them in their teens were “secretly and ...

She told [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/olivia-hussey-recalls-controversial-romeo-and-juliet-role-at-16-reveals-personal-tragedies) that “it wasn’t that big of a deal” and that the film’s production crew had become a “big family.” Hussey’s interviews about the scene showed her trying to “come to grips” with the situation and express her pride for the film and her performance, although, he said, she was never proud of that scene. Hussey had expressed some approval of how the scene was filmed, telling The scene was filmed on a closed set, Ms. Hussey had worked with the director again in the 1977 mini-series “ Hussey recalls the filming of the scene, writing that after a makeup artist approached her to apply full body makeup, she confronted Mr. In recent days, the state has seen a He said that over the years, the actors had maintained a “relationship of profound gratitude and friendship” with Mr. Hussey was 16 years old when the scene was filmed, and Mr. (The scene was filmed in September 1967, he said, though the lawsuit that was filed contains an inaccurate date.) According to the lawsuit, Mr. In the scene, Mr.

The actors who played star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film are suing Paramount Pictures for child abuse over their brief ...

That would be the beginning for sure,” he said. “Defendants were dishonest and secretly filmed the nude or partially nude minor children without their knowledge, in violation of the state and federal laws regulating indecency and exploitation of minors for profit,” the suit says. The actors, now both in their 70s, claim in a suit filed in Santa Monica last week that a bedroom scene in which buttocks and bare breasts are visible amounts to sexual exploitation by movie studio Paramount, and that the company was guilty of distributing nude pictures of adolescents.

Two stars of the 1968 film adaptation of "Romeo & Juliet" have sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million over a nude scene the actors shot as ...

According to the filing, Zeffirelli, who died in 2019, initially told the actors that they would wear flesh-colored undergarments in the bedroom scene in which Whiting's bare buttocks and Hussey's bare breasts are briefly shown. Leonard Whiting, 72, and Olivia Hussey, 71, claim director Franco Zeffirelli "secretly" filmed them nude or partially nude without their knowledge despite previous assurances that there would be no nudity exhibited in the Oscar-winning film. "They surely know better.

Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, now in their 70s, allege they were sexually exploited.

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Olivia Hussey, then 15, and Leonard Whiting, then 16, allege sexual abuse, sexual harassment and fraud, and are seeking more than $500 million from ...

The actors "believed they had no choice but to act in the nude in body makeup as demanded." "Nobody my age had done that before," she said, adding that Zeffirelli shot it tastefully. The sexual assault scene in 'Last Tango In Paris' clouds Bertolucci's career

Actors Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting were ages 15 and 16 when the film was shot.

“These were very young naive children in the ’60s who had no understanding of what was about to hit them,” he said. The film was a hit for both breakout stars as it won two of the four Oscars it was nominated for in the 41st Academy Awards in 1969. “It was needed for the film,” Hussey told [Looking Beyond the “Brotherhood” of the Pre-Raphaelites](https://hyperallergic.com/793924/looking-beyond-the-brotherhood-of-the-pre-raphaelites/) [Juan Fuentes’s Lexicon of Longing](https://hyperallergic.com/763973/juan-fuentes-lexicon-of-longing/) [Architected Futures and Reimagined Pasts](https://hyperallergic.com/782049/architected-futures-and-reimagined-pasts-merryn-omotayo-alaka-sam-fresquez/) Originally, Zeffirelli had assured the pair that they would not be filming nude, the document claims, but in flesh-colored undergarments with strategic camerawork to create the illusion of total nudity. Whiting and Hussey were able to file the lawsuit on account of Assembly Bill 218 which [Archaeologists Find Possible Remains of Temple of Poseidon](https://hyperallergic.com/793898/archaeologists-find-possible-remains-of-temple-of-poseidon/) However, on the day of the bedroom scene shoot, Zefirelli allegedly informed them that they would have to be nude with body makeup. Former teen stars Olivia Hussey, now 71, and Leonard Whiting, 72, filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures over the inclusion of an underage nude scene in the Oscar-winning 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli, the film features a brief scene in which 16-year-old Whiting’s bare buttocks and 15-year-old Hussey’s bare breasts are visible.